Nielsen Media Research has a web site on the Internet. You can locate the site under entertainment and television using a search engine. You will find the rating points and market share for the networks and cable stations, as well as rating points, share, audience size for categories such as prime time and sports programming.

1. Find the top two prime-time television shows for last week. Calculate the number of TV households that watched each program. Compare these figures with the top two sports programs for last week.

For ratings check out Entertainment Weekly online